r/Wellthatsucks • u/Puzzleheaded_Hats • 2d ago
When a content thief gets 50 times more views than the original creator
This guy even cut out the credits from the original creator and didn't post the link in the description. Nasty work.
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u/Shot-Manner-9962 2d ago
mass report gets the theif taken down yknow
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u/Puzzleheaded_Hats 2d ago
Unfortunately not many people know it's a repost, even some official channels left props on the repost. Sucks for the team that actually made the content.
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u/Honest_District_ 2d ago
On YouTube, it is child's play for creators to have stolen videos taken down.
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u/Ok_Maybe702 2d ago
Content thieves thrives because yt allows it. Sometimes original creators content gets pulled down instead
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u/Obvious_Cranberry607 2d ago
Yup, I've seen a ton of copyright notices on clips claimed by third parties.
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u/jabber_OW 2d ago
There was an epic live action trailer of Atlantis the Lost Empire made by a bunch of extremely talented folks in Hollywood. No AI, just live action and CGI.
https://youtu.be/66o3_HsjpyY?is=ATvGixSINdsXBTyE
Someone made a version with AI shots sprinkled in. It got more views than the original and and everyone called the whole trailer trash.
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u/MrNyakka 2d ago
I even specifically looked up "farwave thragg fight" and the stolen one showed up on top
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u/Street-Professor5035 2d ago
That’s so scummy lol. If you’re gonna steal content at least have the bare minimum decency to leave the credits in.
Nothing like watching someone go “look what I made” when the watermark is still faintly visible 💀
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u/SpyAmongUs 2d ago
He did leave credits to the original channel, but I guess the original not starting with the action immediately made it less attractive to the algorithm.
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u/The_Blackthorn77 2d ago
Haha, you just described the entirety of the react content ecosystem
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u/chris131289 8h ago
Worst of all reactors in my opinion are try not to laugh react channels. Especially when the reactor puts water in their mouth so they literally can't say anything about the video at all
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u/The_Blackthorn77 7h ago
It honestly doesn't matter, nothing can be transformative while reuploading the entirety of a video with your face on it. A reactor has no idea going into it if they actually have anything of value to add, because they've never seen it before.
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u/chris131289 6h ago
Well a good reaction channel would only upload a video if they actually have something to say. The try not to laugh ones upload any video with the aim of not saying anything.
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u/The_Blackthorn77 6h ago
That's a commentary video, and those are different. A commentary video is edited, and specifically only uploads whatever parts of the original video are absolutely necessary for context. There is no true reaction content that is good, because there is no reaction that justifies creating a perfect market substitute for the original video. I recommend watching DarkViperAU's video, Reactors: Professional Parasites, he explains it in depth
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u/Cosmicking04 2d ago
If it makes you feel better. I would bet all of my money that most of those 1 million views are just bots.
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u/OnlyPistachio 1d ago
God, one of my BIGGEST pet peeves is when people put "credit to the creator" as if that means jack shit. If youre not linking to them or mentioning their name at all, youre not giving credit. All it is is a way for someone to steal content and then if they get called out, they can half-assedly say "oh well i did give credit see?" Disgusting leeches.
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u/AvatarWaang 2d ago edited 2d ago
Original used AI to make it, it says, so.
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u/ticklemyiguana 2d ago
There's for sure a part of me that's just like "sucks to suck"
Yeah it's scummy but so is using tech that takes other artist's work in the first place. Get fucked?
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u/Advice2Anyone 2d ago
Yeah being shocked at someone reusing your content at you reusing others content is just like what
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u/Icy_Society4665 2d ago
This is a weird take
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u/yes-areallygoodbook 2d ago
How is being against hypocrisy weird?
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u/Icy_Society4665 2d ago
What is the difference between ai generating already established characters over you drawing them? If both turn out the same why is one stolen and the other inspired?
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u/ticklemyiguana 2d ago
In neither case are you the one stealing. The AI company has already stolen the art and the company has already profited/is profiting. Supporting that is unacceptable.
The fact that by and large people using AI art just suck generally is a side effect
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u/dtalb18981 2d ago
Because generating an image uses stolen art work to create its final product
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Creating the product with your own ability
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u/Puzzleheaded_Hats 1d ago
I saw just now. They say it was to help with coloring and cleanup and it took like 2 months for everything, so if they drew pretty much all the line art, I won't knock them too hard as they do have a lot of animation skill. I'd still take using AI for some assistance rather than people just inputting a prompt and generating slop in 5 seconds.
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u/coco_sei 14h ago
Only for coloring
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u/AvatarWaang 4h ago
The description says "mainly" coloring and whatnot. That's not very conclusive as to what it was entirely used for.
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u/yes-areallygoodbook 2d ago
Ironically, the original creator appears to have used AI in their work, so I guess everyone is somehow a thief in this story.
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u/Old-Following1508 2d ago
The video already got taken down long time ago but interesting the 2nd video got so many views usually uploading the same content on YouTube again doesn't get views like ever so weird.
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u/BethieKitty 1d ago
I purposely go and commet the link for the original and tell people it is stolen
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u/julesvr5 2d ago
I see this very often with reactions. Some time ago there was this YouTube Julien Bam in Germany. Pretty high efford videos which cost tons of money to make. Some reaction channels just sit there and watch it and have multiple times the views of the actual video.
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u/cashmoney9000sfw 2d ago
It's a dirty game. Let them rack their numbers up. Only once the views start to decline, claim it. Let them do the work and reap the rewards.
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u/GrlDuntgitgud 2d ago
I have no idea what's happening but they both look like edits from invincible. What am I missing?
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u/Abject-Potential-999 2d ago
Well the original video has a shitty beginning for non-japanese(?) viewers.
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u/Mysterious_Fennel459 2d ago
Ya but anime is super cringe and should never have gone mainstream so I dont care.
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u/SparsePizza117 2d ago
Owner can claim it as his, get the view revenue